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@richardt135.bsky.social
Live in Blackheath Standard SE3. Interested in housing, community safety and striving for a more sustainable future.
Are these pre-sale events at the O2 Arena a scam? Widely advertised, join waiting room, enter 5 mins after launch, just a few single seats being offered. A few mins later, a notice to say they’ve all gone. 🤷♂️ #Raye #TradingStandards
September 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Are these pre-sale events at the O2 Arena a scam? Widely advertised, join waiting room, enter 5 mins after launch, just a few single seats being offered. A few mins later, a notice to say they’ve all gone. 🤷♂️ #Raye #TradingStandards
Stuck in gridlocked traffic southbound on A102 in Greenwich holding up our SL4 bus. Ambulance on blue lights stuck on two lane slip road unable to move. No cycle lanes to blame this time. Just too many cars. @murkydepths.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Stuck in gridlocked traffic southbound on A102 in Greenwich holding up our SL4 bus. Ambulance on blue lights stuck on two lane slip road unable to move. No cycle lanes to blame this time. Just too many cars. @murkydepths.bsky.social
First time I’ve seen this - restaurant in Margate offering 10% discount for cash payment. Their Thai food was great, paid in cash and paid their 10% discount as a tip 🙂 #cashisking
August 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
First time I’ve seen this - restaurant in Margate offering 10% discount for cash payment. Their Thai food was great, paid in cash and paid their 10% discount as a tip 🙂 #cashisking
Some motorists are so arrogant. M2 closed westbound, sat in gridlocked traffic. Emergency services blue lighting it down hard shoulder to get to scene of collision. Increasing number of drivers deciding their time is too precious and driving down hard shoulder. 😡 Hoping Kent Police issue tickets.
August 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Some motorists are so arrogant. M2 closed westbound, sat in gridlocked traffic. Emergency services blue lighting it down hard shoulder to get to scene of collision. Increasing number of drivers deciding their time is too precious and driving down hard shoulder. 😡 Hoping Kent Police issue tickets.
When did drive through coffee shops become a thing, this one in Kent? Failure of planning policy, bad for health and not even good coffee. Around the corner we walked past long queue of drivers waiting to use a car wash. Is it coffee while waiting to wash car, or need clean car to get coffee? 🤷♂️
August 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
When did drive through coffee shops become a thing, this one in Kent? Failure of planning policy, bad for health and not even good coffee. Around the corner we walked past long queue of drivers waiting to use a car wash. Is it coffee while waiting to wash car, or need clean car to get coffee? 🤷♂️
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July 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Very pleasant jumping on the air conditioned electric SL4 bus for a free trip from Blackheath Standard to Canary Wharf 🙂
June 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Very pleasant jumping on the air conditioned electric SL4 bus for a free trip from Blackheath Standard to Canary Wharf 🙂
Seems my prediction was right. There was a higher turnout, Labour did lose the seat and Greenwich Council has its first ever Green councillor!
Having read this article as someone who belongs to no political party, I’m expecting a higher than usual turnout at the Shooters Hill ward by election and Labour losing the seat. Either way, it’s a case study in how not to run an election campaign www.shrewsburyhouse.org/news/28-mere...
28 Mereworth Drive update: Board response to campaign claims — Shrewsbury House
GREEN GARTH UPDATE: The Board of SHCA Responds to Claims made in a Labour By-election Campaign Letter As managers of the Shrewsbury House site the Board were surprised and concerned to find th...
www.shrewsburyhouse.org
June 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Seems my prediction was right. There was a higher turnout, Labour did lose the seat and Greenwich Council has its first ever Green councillor!
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The Green Party has its first ever councillor in Greenwich after Tamasin Rhymes won the Shooters Hill by-election.
The result is the biggest upset in Greenwich politics for a generation and follows a row over the Labour council's land sales in the ward.
The result is the biggest upset in Greenwich politics for a generation and follows a row over the Labour council's land sales in the ward.
Green Party's Tamasin Rhymes wins Shooters Hill by-election - The Greenwich Wire
The Green Party has its first ever councillor in Greenwich after Tamasin Rhymes won the Shooters Hill by-election.
greenwichwire.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The Green Party has its first ever councillor in Greenwich after Tamasin Rhymes won the Shooters Hill by-election.
The result is the biggest upset in Greenwich politics for a generation and follows a row over the Labour council's land sales in the ward.
The result is the biggest upset in Greenwich politics for a generation and follows a row over the Labour council's land sales in the ward.
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SHOOTERS HILL BY-ELECTION LATEST: Turnout is 32.6 per cent - up from 22.5 per cent at the by-election held in October last year. Counting is now under way...
June 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
SHOOTERS HILL BY-ELECTION LATEST: Turnout is 32.6 per cent - up from 22.5 per cent at the by-election held in October last year. Counting is now under way...
Hi @royalgreenwich.bsky.social - will you ever start posting on here, or are you staying on toxic Twitter that many of us left?
June 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Hi @royalgreenwich.bsky.social - will you ever start posting on here, or are you staying on toxic Twitter that many of us left?
Having read this article as someone who belongs to no political party, I’m expecting a higher than usual turnout at the Shooters Hill ward by election and Labour losing the seat. Either way, it’s a case study in how not to run an election campaign www.shrewsburyhouse.org/news/28-mere...
28 Mereworth Drive update: Board response to campaign claims — Shrewsbury House
GREEN GARTH UPDATE: The Board of SHCA Responds to Claims made in a Labour By-election Campaign Letter As managers of the Shrewsbury House site the Board were surprised and concerned to find th...
www.shrewsburyhouse.org
June 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Having read this article as someone who belongs to no political party, I’m expecting a higher than usual turnout at the Shooters Hill ward by election and Labour losing the seat. Either way, it’s a case study in how not to run an election campaign www.shrewsburyhouse.org/news/28-mere...
My late dad’s Strelitzia (bird of paradise) in flower after moving to our sunny garden in SE London. It seems to like its new home. I think he’d be pleased.
May 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
My late dad’s Strelitzia (bird of paradise) in flower after moving to our sunny garden in SE London. It seems to like its new home. I think he’d be pleased.
Thoughts and prayers with everyone in Liverpool tonight, and thanks to the bravery of all our emergency services, NHS and members of the public who stepped in to help. Time for calm. 🙏
May 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Thoughts and prayers with everyone in Liverpool tonight, and thanks to the bravery of all our emergency services, NHS and members of the public who stepped in to help. Time for calm. 🙏
Great news!!
A great day out at Wembley with promotion for Charlton Athletic
May 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Great news!!
Our garden in SE London is so full of life since we added a pond, planted a mixed native hedge and banned all use of chemicals. Latest arrival - a broad bodied chaser dragonfly 🙂
May 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Our garden in SE London is so full of life since we added a pond, planted a mixed native hedge and banned all use of chemicals. Latest arrival - a broad bodied chaser dragonfly 🙂
Perhaps a good opportunity to elect a Green Party councillor for Greenwich, given how badly this labour cllr was treated after standing up for local residents, leading to her resignation? @greenwichgreens.bsky.social
A Greenwich Labour councillor who spoke up for local residents protesting against the sale of council land in her ward has quit after being threatened with a six-week suspension.
greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/05/09/l...
greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/05/09/l...
Labour councillor quits after facing sanction for defending residents - The Greenwich Wire
A Greenwich Labour councillor who spoke up for local residents protesting against the sale of council land in her ward has quit after being threatened with a six-week suspension. Ivis Williams, who…
greenwichwire.co.uk
May 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Perhaps a good opportunity to elect a Green Party councillor for Greenwich, given how badly this labour cllr was treated after standing up for local residents, leading to her resignation? @greenwichgreens.bsky.social
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
Interesting thread on the journey to net zero.
No one is forcing me to consider installing solar panels on our roof. I want to do it as it makes environmental and economic sense. Energy generated and used at source. Simple.
No one is forcing me to consider installing solar panels on our roof. I want to do it as it makes environmental and economic sense. Energy generated and used at source. Simple.
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Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today
It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town
However it’s a bit odd
By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵
Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today
It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town
However it’s a bit odd
By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵
April 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Interesting thread on the journey to net zero.
No one is forcing me to consider installing solar panels on our roof. I want to do it as it makes environmental and economic sense. Energy generated and used at source. Simple.
No one is forcing me to consider installing solar panels on our roof. I want to do it as it makes environmental and economic sense. Energy generated and used at source. Simple.
Hi @eastcombetraffic.bsky.social - do you still have access to traffic data post opening of Silvertown Tunnel? Whilst it’s too soon to draw any conclusions, my sense is there’s less traffic leaving A102 at Sun in the Sands and heading via ODR then Charlton looking for a quicker route.
April 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Hi @eastcombetraffic.bsky.social - do you still have access to traffic data post opening of Silvertown Tunnel? Whilst it’s too soon to draw any conclusions, my sense is there’s less traffic leaving A102 at Sun in the Sands and heading via ODR then Charlton looking for a quicker route.
I’ve heard hawthorne can take 20 years to flower. Not ours. First flowers have appeared after 2 years. 🙂
April 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I’ve heard hawthorne can take 20 years to flower. Not ours. First flowers have appeared after 2 years. 🙂
Mixed native hedge planted at bottom of garden two years ago. Bird cherry now in full bloom with strong scent and great for bees!
April 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Mixed native hedge planted at bottom of garden two years ago. Bird cherry now in full bloom with strong scent and great for bees!
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Woolwich public realm project removing much pedestrian space around an extremely busy areas near the Elizabeth line station crossing creating numerous pinch points hindering those on foot.
Thousands more homes due too which'll increase footfall here www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/04/11/w...
Thousands more homes due too which'll increase footfall here www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/04/11/w...
Woolwich upgrade project creating big problems near Elizabeth line station - Murky Depths
A major project changing Woolwich town centre is seeing major problems are numerous pedestrian routes are reduced in size
www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Woolwich public realm project removing much pedestrian space around an extremely busy areas near the Elizabeth line station crossing creating numerous pinch points hindering those on foot.
Thousands more homes due too which'll increase footfall here www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/04/11/w...
Thousands more homes due too which'll increase footfall here www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/04/11/w...
Is Trump to America what Truss was to UK, or even worse? 🤔
April 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Is Trump to America what Truss was to UK, or even worse? 🤔
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🧵 LCC CEO Tom Fyans: "Safety must always come first, but the risk is that measures like this could confuse people about the safety of genuine e-bikes and reduce usage, which would be a big concern.
metro.co.uk/2025/03/26/e...
metro.co.uk/2025/03/26/e...
E-bikes to be banned on London Underground in days after string of station fires
E-bike fires have caused concern among Londoners.
metro.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🧵 LCC CEO Tom Fyans: "Safety must always come first, but the risk is that measures like this could confuse people about the safety of genuine e-bikes and reduce usage, which would be a big concern.
metro.co.uk/2025/03/26/e...
metro.co.uk/2025/03/26/e...